Portrait Of A Fighting Editor
Salem Oregon editor George Putnam reflects on a 50 year career defending press freedom. He recalls threats, libel suits, and boycotts while noting his newspaper’s growth from under 5000 to over 18000 circulation. He champions independence, honesty, and vigilant government oversight.
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Salem
Ore
George Putnam
Putnam
E. W. Scripps
Capital Journal
Oregon
Ku Klux Klan
Prohibitionists
Townsend Movement
Could McCarthy Win Another Way
The piece weighs McCarthy's strategy to expose alleged State Department communists through public appeals to the people, contrasting it with internal channels. It reviews past cases, loyalty boards, and Amerasia, Hiss, and Service, arguing the path via justice may have been blocked, raising the question if public pressure can succeed.
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Washington
Sen
Joseph McCarthy
U. S. State Department
McCarthy
Acheson
Department of Justice
Whittaker Chambers
State Department
Alger Hiss
Hiss
Licly
FBI
Service
Secretary of State
Foreign Service
Asia
George Wheeler
Czechoslovakia
Wheeler
Loyalty Board
Europe
Amerasia
Senate
Loyalty Appeal Board
The
Civil Service Commission
State Department Loyalty Board
Review Board
Truman
America
Sen. Tydings
Sen. McCarthy
Jury Hears 4 Witnesses In Darling Trial
Four witnesses testified that Bernard Darling appeared intoxicated on Halloween night about four hours before the death of Shirley Mae Trout. They described boisterous conduct red flushed face and bloodshot eyes as Darling faces two counts of negligent homicide.
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Green Bay
Wis
Bernard
Boobh) Darling
Hallowe
Shirley Mae Trout
Floyd Rhodes
Big Ten
Darling
Orville Rhodes
Appleton Night
Floyd
Joseph Devleeschower
de Pere
Arlene Lindquist
E. M. Duquaine
Ivan Mataya
Union Hotel
Mataya
Dist. Atty
Robert Parins
Cletus Chadek
US scientists curb mil dew blight with forecasting system
Federal plant disease survey partners with the Weather Bureau and others to forecast mildews in crops from potatoes to tomatoes and tobacco. Since 1946 the program has grown from 37 states to all 48, with warnings guiding farmers to spray timing and control measures to save time, money and yields.
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Washington
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Rockies
Paul Miller
Blaine Carleton Elected High Priest of Wisconsin Royal Arch Masons
Blaine Carleton of Stevens Point was elected high priest of the Wisconsin grand chapter of the Royal Arch Masons. He succeeds Orlin M. Wooley of Beloit. The note about the domestic cat mentions its believed descent from cross bred European and African wildcats.
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Milwaukee
Blaine Carleton
Stevens Point
Wisconsin
Royal Arch Masons
Orlin M. Wooley
Beloit
Reading Room Q and A Guide to Facts
The La Crosse Tribune Information Bureau answers readers questions on bank failures in Canada and the United States, names of warships, states losing population since 1940, and federal tax on a pack of 20 cigarettes. Notable points include one Canadian bank failure since 1914, no US bank suspensions in 1945 46 and 48, first female namesake destroyer Higbee, five states losing population since 1940, and about seven cents tax per cigarette pack.
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Amerasia
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
McCarthy
John S. Service
State Department
U. S. State Department
Calcutta
India
J. Edgar Hoover
la Crosse Tribune Information Bureau
Eye St
N. E
Washington
Canada
United States
U. S
Oslo exhibit showcases Congo life to winter visitors
An Oslo exhibit aims to draw sun seekers from Norway to the Belgian Congo by presenting religious cultural and economic life aspects of the Congo.
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Belgian Congo
Oslo
The
Congo
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Wisconsin State Journal
Pres. Truman
James F. Byrnes
Loyalty’ Board
Byrnes
Tydings Committee
Tribune
By Frank Carey
Penney’s
Golgate
Colgate
Sree
Haskin Service
United States Navy
J. A
Navy Department
U. S. S. Hig
Bee
Higbee
U. S. Navy
Nurse Corps
Mississippi
Montana
Nebraska
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Indiana
Columbia
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